CEU Courses

Counseling serves as the foundation for our patient relationships, yet we know that - despite our best efforts - it is often ineffective. We will explore innovative ways to improve what patients remember and increase the likelihood they will follow through with recommendations.

This article reviews the definition and purpose of outcome measures in audiology. In an engaging Q & A format, the author discusses the development and clinical use of a new outcome measure assessing hearing aid benefit, and explains the value it has brought to his practice.

This course will analyze historical events in audiology, and review evidence to support the fact that audiologists have often been the initiators of disruption in the market. The presenter will make the case for private practice audiologists storming the lead in this current disruptive landscape and discuss what that might look like.

This text is an engaging Q & A discussion of teleaudiology applications and outcomes, with examples from the Veterans Administration.

This course will focus on incorporating hearing aid trials into the hearing aid consultation process, based on data from a system-wide initiative to enhance the audiology patient experience at University Hospitals Medical Center. The data demonstrates how the utilization of trials prior to hearing aid purchase reduced the number of tested-not-fit patients, and elevated the first fit hearing aid experience. In addition, trials resulted in higher technology fittings, increased purchase rate, reduced return rates, and higher patient satisfaction.

In this presentation, we will discuss the foundations of ethics and compliance in audiology, as well as U.S. regulations. We will explore the AAA and ASHA Codes of Ethics, state ethical guidelines contained in several state licensure laws, Medicare, HIPAA, the FDA Guidelines, Stark laws, and Anti-kickback laws and explain, in detail, how they relate to specific scenarios we encounter in audiology.

The course will review how the gender pay gap statistic is calculated and systematically break it down beyond face value. Application to the profession of audiology will be discussed. In addition a key factor accounting for existing gender pay gaps will be covered.

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Many school districts no longer have educational audiologists. Students with hearing loss continue to need all the services that educational audiologists have provided. Clinical audiologists now need to pick up this slack if their young patients with hearing loss are going to succeed in today’s challenging academic environment. This session will discuss contemporary audiological needs of children with hearing loss in schools, how clinical audiologists can help meet those needs, and how to network with schools from a clinical setting.

This course covers basic concepts regarding the selection of hearing aid gain and output, verification, and potential negative consequences when verification is not performed. It also reviews recent changes in the US hearing aid market and makes the case as to why hearing aid verification is more important than ever. This text-based course is written in an engaging Q & A format.